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Halo to Halo 3 - Really that good?

Well Halo 3 went on sale this week and it's sold great. But I don't understand what's so exciting about a new Halo game. It's just another FPS to add to the other heaps FPS. You know what it's going to be.

Well AussieFan, you said that people say what's so good about LoZ but I seem to see the "magic". Well you do as well. o_O

I believe i didn't say i hated it or didn't see the magic
you're right I enjoy Legend Of Zelda games but i also enjoy Halo games but I perfer Zelda over Halo for certain things and Halo over Zelda for others

Halo 1: Awesome, a real fresh look for sci-fi shooters.
Halo 2: Story wasn't as good, but now you can dual wield.
Halo 3: The climatic storyline, the return of the dual-wield, and weapons holstered when not in use.

Halo 1: Awesome, a real fresh look for sci-fi shooters.
Halo 2: Story wasn't as good, but now you can dual wield.
Halo 3: The climatic storyline, the return of the dual-wield, and weapons holstered when not in use.

Actually Halo 2's dual wielding was one of the first games I've seen dual wielding done right: independent triggers. I never really liked the fact that if you could dual wield, you were still assigned one button and the guns fire alternatively.

But it wasn't the first to have independently triggered dual wielding, a Half-Life mod called The Specialists had independently triggered dual wielding before Halo 2.

Well Halo 3 went on sale this week and it's sold great. But I don't understand what's so exciting about a new Halo game. It's just another FPS to add to the other heaps FPS. You know what it's going to be.

The reason I like Halo is due to the sheer awsome characters and not to mention Sergeant Johnson who inspired me to get into the series. The theme has got to do with aliens, space, and mystery, now that's something I'm totally fond of. And then the game has some great quotes which make me smile. I just can't play other first person shooters cause I don't get the same feeling when I'm playing them.

I have to say, Halo has possibly one of the worst, most cliche plots ever, and even though my expectations were low for the plot of Halo 3, it sucked more than I ever imagined. What really makes me mad, though, is that when I first found out about Halo, I thought it was a sci-fi about humans that didn't seem like they were ripped from Star Trek, didn't have lasers, but had enough brains and good enough tech to survive. When I learned that this couldn't be any further from the truth (aka Halo was more of the same but somehow worse), I really began to hate Halo. Every human sucked more than a Stormtrooper from Star Wars, and in the books the Spartans couldn't even really save the day. Also, in H2 onwards, the mysterious, alien feel of the plasma weaponry felt replaced by a plastic, flashlight feel.

Regarding gameplay, Latios pretty much covered everything, and in H3 the brutes felt weak and lame to fight. Because they didn't have regenerating shields, you could fight them at a less intense pace. If they were like the fearsome, crazy shoulder-ramming brutes from H2 they might have been cool, but the second they were just brown elites all coolness they had died out.

Nurse Joy: We hope to see you again! (Translation: We hope you get the crap beaten out of you so that you require medical treatment again!) Not so nice in a different light, is it?

I don't use "uber" Pokemon, I don't calculate stat values, I don't use cheating devices, I don't breed my way to perfection, and I don't care about natures. I catch my Pokemon the way they are, and treat them like individuals instead of brainless drones. If you use this philosophy, copy & paste this into your signature. (Started by Tyranitar)